PNR vs. IR, XYL, DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, NDSN, SWK, WWD, and LECO
Should you be buying Pentair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pentair include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Woodward (WWD), and Lincoln Electric (LECO). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Pentair (NYSE:PNR) and Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
Pentair has a net margin of 15.30% compared to Ingersoll Rand's net margin of 11.85%. Pentair's return on equity of 20.16% beat Ingersoll Rand's return on equity.
Pentair currently has a consensus price target of $89.93, suggesting a potential upside of 15.97%. Ingersoll Rand has a consensus price target of $95.82, suggesting a potential upside of 7.50%. Given Pentair's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pentair is more favorable than Ingersoll Rand.
Pentair has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ingersoll Rand received 87 more outperform votes than Pentair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.41% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 56.50% of users gave Pentair an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ingersoll Rand had 6 more articles in the media than Pentair. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Ingersoll Rand and 10 mentions for Pentair. Pentair's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Ingersoll Rand's score of 0.96 indicating that Pentair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.4% of Pentair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Pentair shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ingersoll Rand has higher revenue and earnings than Pentair. Pentair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pentair pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Pentair pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Pentair and Ingersoll Rand tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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